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Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Working on your vehicle can be intimidating with the complicated engines, sophisticated electrical systems and other high-tech components, but with this helpful guide by your side, you learn to fine-tune and identify common car problems and make your own repairs!
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
With his father absent and his mother working, eleven-year-old Henry "June" Ball must spend the summer on the road with his cousins, "Ford men" who repair old cars.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books/ Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.
11) Peekaboo car
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Vehicle-themed new title! A new vehicle-themed title in the hit novelty series with multiple sliders! Easy-to-use peekaboo sliders, a funny rhyming text and surprise mirror ending combine in this stylish and interactive board book for babies and toddlers! With a total of 10 smooth mechanisms to push, pull or turn on every spread this beautiful book is packed full of fun!"--Publisher's description.
13) Car and driver
Author
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Provides tips and information about driving, maintaining, repairing, and buying a car.
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
There may be an occasional flaw in the auto expert advice of brothers Tom and Ray Maggliozzi, but the complaint box remains empty, with no factory recall in sight. Featuring four all-time favorite Car Talk episodes, hand-picked by hosts Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, and presented here together for the first time.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The Carters are an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to remain empty. When the Carter's car breaks down at the old site, they find themselves stranded. As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually...
17) Vacancy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
David and Amy Fox find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. As luck would have it, they come across a motel. There is something very strange and familiar about the Grade-Z slasher movies that the motel broadcasts for its guests' enjoyment. The set appears to be filmed in the very same room David and Amy are occupying. They come to realize that they are trapped in their room with hidden cameras filming their every...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Lena, Mason, Abner, Rocky, and Esther only have one thing in common: They're crazy about cars. A few of them already have their driver's licenses. And even though Rocky and Esther are too young to drive, they still have a lot of questions. In Car Club, Ms. Gritt has all the answers . When is the best time to check the oil? How do change a tire? And why is Mason's car making that squeaky noise? Before you get behind the wheel, learn what's going on...
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